shared library pain with 6.0-RELEASE : .so.600 ??

Alexander Nedotsukov bland at FreeBSD.org
Wed Nov 9 22:10:18 PST 2005


Joe Rhett wrote:
>> But on the good note I'd happy to tell that those frequent shared 
>> library bumps was due bug in GNU autohell tools used by GNOME/GTK 
>> software authors. This problem addressed in GNOME 2.12 FreeBSD port 
>> which just hit the repository. So this is a last time you required to 
>> step through massive rebuild w/o a good reason for that.
>>     
>
> So clarify for me -- if I do the gnome-upgrade.sh upgrade to 2.12, this
> will recompile every package that needs these libraries?  Or give me more
> new library changes that will need yet more symbolic links?
>   
It will rebuild every package that needs these libraries. When next 
GNOME upgrade hit FreeBSD repo you will not be required to do it again.

All the best,
Alexander.


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